How ICE raids in Kansas meatpacking country sparked fury – and turned voters against Trump

In region where migrants have settled to work at abattoirs and feedyards, harsh raids pushed people to vote Democrat

Jose Del Real looked over the crowd from the stage in a park, at hundreds of his neighbors with furious signs tucked under their arms, voicing their anger at immigration agents who had descended on their town and started rounding up their friends and family. His daughters, in the front row, were crying.

Del Real, an army veteran who served two tours in Iraq, hadn't voted in a decade. He thought it would not matter in this ruby red corner of Kansas. But the midterm election was weeks away. He draped an American flag over his shoulders, put on his Iraq veteran cap and ended his speech with a message: None of this matters if you do not vote. Let's go vote."